Models of desert locust phase changes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 91, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 131-137

  Holt, Johnson ^a   Cheke, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catastrophe theory; Chaos; Locust; Logistic equation; Phase; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHE THEORY; DESERT LOCUST; LOGISTIC EQUATION; MODELLING; PHASE CHANGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACRIDIDAE; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERRA GREGARIA;

EID: 0030588383     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00184-0     Document Type: Article

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